re: #47 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

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This is a guy who also flew along on B-17 combat missions during World War II and reported live on atomic bomb tests in the 50s.

Walter Cronkite got his start as a war reporter in WWII. Some years back I remember being very impressed reading an online reprint of a piece he had written describing his ridealong with an airborne unit in a glider during (I think) the Arnhem assault in 1944. Harrowing shit: the glider (as they were prone to do) broke up on landing: Cronkite was lucky - unlike some in the squad - not to have been killed. Really powerful writing, though. But what really irked me was that the site the report was on had just one comment attached: a sour rant from some wingnut slagging Cronkite for personally causing the US to lose the war in Vietnam.
Hopefully that was a (very) minority opinion….